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Ma nation: New Crow October 07 This is a fiction. I didn't whrite it. http://qntm.org/godmode
"Have you ever been doing something, some lengthy, repetitive, dull
task, and found your hands start working all by themselves and your
mind begins to wander elsewhere? He was like that with videogames. He
was into Buddhism. I'm not sure he bought or even understood all of it,
but he really liked that whole meditation thing. He said that when he
sat down in front of a television screen, he found that the
concentration focused just a small part of his mind, while releasing
the rest of it. So he started meditating while playing Tetris. It
sounded crazy at first, but the more I thought about it, the less dumb
it sounded. I actually tried it out once. Didn't quite get the hang of
it, but I got the point.
"What I didn't get was how meditating made him so darned good
at videogames. I mean, he must have been receiving distilled wisdom of
the ancient gamers direct from Buddha or something, 'cause he could
beat us at any game. Even if we ganged up on him. Quake: he'd
walk into a room full of rocket-toting veterans and rail them all to
hell. Walk out without even getting singed. This probably doesn't mean
anything to you, does it?"
"So this one day he got this parcel in the mail, from America. Said
it was the fastest version of Tetris ever created. He got it customised
from one that was already on the market in Japan. Got a programmer
acquaintance to take a look and modify it, take out all the speed
restrictions. This thing would run to the limits of the console's
hardware and beyond. He was very excited about this. I knew he was.
Tetris is his favourite game. 'A combination of white-hot concentration
and detached bliss' he said about it once. Probably trying to be deep."
"Yeah, I can tell you who the programmer was, but listen, he isn't a
suspect here. I know what happened and I'm about to tell you, and it
wasn't his fault. ...All right, all right. Got a pen?"
"That's his number, I forgot his address, but I can find out for
you. It's in Michigan somewhere. So my mate was all excited, he cleared
an entire weekend, got a whole load of food and drink and settles down
on his bean bag to play a single, solid run of one-player Tetris, from
Saturday night to as far into Sunday as he could manage. That's a hefty
whack of gameplay you've got there."
"No, it's not unusual. He's done forty-eight hour stints before now."
"Well I decided to sleep through the slow early stages, and turned
up at his house Sunday morning. Score was already somewhere in the
hundred thousands. The tetraminoes were moving very fast - thunk,
thunk, thunk, pretty rapid, but he was keeping on top of it, he was
doing okay. We had a short conversation, I had some breakfast. He
didn't want to stop playing, so I fed him some fruit and water while he
played on."
"No, at the time I didn't see anything unusual. That was about ten
in the morning. By noon the blocks were going thunk-thunk-thunk-thunk,
three or four a second. I was having difficulty following the blocks as
they fell. Certainly I couldn't see how he was keeping one eye on the
current block and another to see what the next one was. His hands were
jittering about the joypad too fast to follow. He wasn't responding to
questions until I repeated them two or three times. Obviously his
concentration was being eaten up. After he got half a million points I
stopped asking him questions, so he could keep his concentration. Sat
behind him eating popcorn.
"By one o'clock Sunday afternoon, he was landing something like ten
blocks a second. Thunkthunkthunkthunkthunk, I couldn't understand how
he was even seeing individual blocks, let alone moving his hands fast
enough. I thought he might have got himself a customised,
ultrasensitive joypad, meaning he only has to twitch his fingers very
slightly to activate the buttons. The screen was a blur. I could just
about make out individual states in the playing field as they went
past, and I could tell that despite the pressure he was still getting
Tetrises."
"You know, when you drop the four-by-one down the side and get four
rows at once? So by this stage I figured he was pretty near the end, so
I cued up the videotape and started recording. I went upstairs and got
his camcorder too, so I could film him playing live. Yeah, that film.
Did you see the point where I went in for a close-up of his eyes?"
"Yeah."
"Don't ask me. I haven't a clue. All I know is, by this time his
score meter was a permanent blur. He kept going. The blocks went
faster. The sound of them falling accelerated until it was like a
continuous rumble, then a whirr, then a whine. By this time, the blocks
are falling about as fast as the processor can handle... The game, I
then realised, had been reprogrammed to handle this. First it cut out
the 3D animated backdrops. Gradually it started cutting out visual
effects and sound effects and backdrops until there was nothing but
monochrome lines, rising and falling like a graphic equalizer. No sound
effects, the only sound in the room was the sound of his fingers on the
pad.
"At five in the afternoon, the tape I'd shoved in the VCR ran out.
He was still playing so I stuck a new one in. It was obvious to me by
now that he was in some kind of trance. He was playing far beyond
anything I'd ever seen before. The framerate on the screen topped out
at about 60Hz. I watched the score skyrocket and figured that he was
landing at least five blocks a frame, which, even if I bought the rest,
was categorically impossible. By this time I was definitely starting to
realise that something was up. Something I've not met before."
"I didn't really know what I was expecting to happen. I
don't know that much about deep meditation. For the record, I certainly
didn't know there was any risk involved."
"So six o'clock comes and he thunders towards the one million mark.
I've still got the camcorder running, to catch the momentous score on
tape. Did I say that the world record was only about five hundred and
ten kay? One million flashes past. Forty-five seconds later the thing
which nobody ever, EVER thought possible in happens. The score tops
out, at one million, forty-eight thousand, five hundred and
seventy-five lines. The game freezes, locks up solid, and so does my
mate."
"No, I was nowhere near him. You can watch the tape. I was holding
the camcorder. I had him and the screen in line of sight the entire
time, you can see I never touched him while he was playing."
"Well, the first thing I did after he collapsed was roll him off the
pad and check his pulse. Nothing. Fumbled my phone out of my pocket and
I was calling an ambulance within about thirty seconds of the game
freezing. Gave him CPR as best I could - my last lesson was a long,
long time ago - but by the time the medics arrived it had already been
about eight minutes and he still wasn't responding. I stood back to let
them try to jumpstart his heart, but by that time I was beginning to
think. Cogs were whirring."
"No. It wasn't hunger, it wasn't thirst, I kept him topped up the
entire time. There was nothing in the water I gave him. He wasn't
anorexic, or diabetic, or epileptic. He definitely wasn't on any drugs.
Not even caffeine. The post mortem will tell you that. I did nothing to
him, I swear. The autopsy will tell you all of this."
"Listen to me. You asked me to tell you what happened, and I'm
telling you what I think happened. He did not die, officer. He is not
DEAD." Here's a list of reasons why ice cubes are the best things ever.
Ice cubes...
- ...are 100% Fat-free
- ...have zero calories
- ...contain no added sugar
- ...contain no added salt
- ...have no artificial flavourings, colourings or sweeteners
- ...contain no E-numbers
- ...are totally organic
- ...are guaranteed free from Genetic Modifications
- ...have no wrappers or peel = no litter or waste
- ...are environmentally friendly (or are they?)
- ...are suitable for vegetarians and vegans
- ...do not contain nuts or wheat
- ...are healthy and good for you
- ...are approved by doctors and scientists
- ...can be made at home! No need to buy them at the shops
- ...are incredibly cheap
- ...are so simple to make, even a kid can do it
- ...can help slimming as part of a calorie-controlled diet
- ...are cool
- ...are crunchy
- ...are tasty
- ...are refreshing
- ...melt in the mouth
- ...make an ideal morning or afternoon snack
- ...but don't ruin your appetite!
Zero calories? Make that LESS than zero!
Francesco Pieri writes,
I found your page on ice cubes exceedingly interesting.
Despite this, I have to say that you underestimate one of the reasons why
ice cubes rock when you assert that they have zero calories. If one
considers that the human body must provide the heat necessary to melt them
(around 6 kJ/mol, or 0.079 kcal/g if one substitutes for the molar
weight of water) and to bring this (now liquid) water to the average
temperature of the body (around 310 K or 37 degrees Celsius), at the
average energetic cost of about 0.0755 kJ/mol/K or 0.001 kcal/g/K (constant
pressure specific heat of water, source: NIST Chemistry
Webbook), and if one supposes the average weight of an ice cube to be
10 grams, the energy supplied by ice cubes amounts to the respectable
value of -1.17 (MINUS 1.17) kilocalories per ice cube, and this supposing
that they are ingested at their melting temperature (0 Celsius). This means,
for example, that the calories contained in the standard Coca-Cola
(not Diet Coke!) can (33 cl) are completely eliminated just by adding 148 ice
cubes to it.
Is that brilliant or what? What are you waiting for? Go and eat some ice cubes now!
Warning!
Eating ice should be a conscious decision on your part. If you find yourself with an
unexplained urge to consume ice, you may have Iron Deficiency Anaemia!
Thanks to Aramis J. Troche for this tidbit. Reference: http://qntm.org/icecubes October 03 Lyrics
Portrait of an American Family (1994)
- White Trash get down on your knees
Time for cake and sodomy
- You cannot sedate, all the things you hate
I don’t need your hate, I decide my fate
Antichrist Superstar (1996)
- I wasn't born with enough middle fingers. I don't need to choose a side.
- Irresponsible Hate Anthem
- The world spreads its legs for another star.
- Prick your finger, it is done. The moon has now eclipsed the sun.
The angel has spread its wings. The time has come for bitter things.
- Anti-people now you've gone too far
Here's your Antichrist Superstar.
- I went to God just to see, and I was looking at me.
- No salvation ... no forgiveness ...
- Peel off all those eyes and crawl into the dark. You've poisoned all your children to camouflage your scars.
- Pray now baby, pray your life was just a dream.
- The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.
- When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
Mechanical Animals (1998)
- There's a lot of pretty, pretty ones
That want to get you high
But all the pretty, pretty ones
Will leave you low and blow your mind.
- We're all stars now, in the Dope Show
- I'm just a sample of soul made to look just like a human being.
- I Don't Like the Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)
- User friendly fucking dopestar obscene
Will you die when you’re high
You’d never die just for me
She says,
I’m not in love, but I’m gonna fuck you
’til somebody better comes along.
Holy Wood (2000)
- Dear god, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.
- Do you love your guns, god, the government?
- I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist/ I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit.
- When we were good, you just closed your eyes. When we were bad, we'll scar your minds.
- I never really hated one true god, but the god of the people I hated.
- Some children died the other day. We fed machines and then we
prayed. Puked up and down in morbid faith. You should have seen the
ratings that day.
- Today I am dirty, want to be pretty. Tommorow, I know that I'm just
dirt. We are the nobodies, wanna be somebodies. When we're dead,
they'll know just who we are.
- We're on a bullet, and we're headed straight into God. Even he'd like to end it too.
- We write our prayers on a little bomb, kiss it on the face and send it to God.
- If you die when there's no-one watching, then your ratings drop and
you're forgotten... If they kill you on their TV, you're a martyr and a
lamb of God.
The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003)
- Everything has been said before
There's nothing left to say anymore When it's all the same You can ask for it by name
- The day that love opened our eyes
We watched the world end We have "high" places but we have no
friends The told us sin's not good but we know it's great War-time
full-frontal drugs, sex-tank armor plate
- You came to see the mobscene
I know it isn't your scene It's better than a sex scene and it's So fucking obscene, obscene yeah.
- Trumpet-mouth junky-saints go
Silver-tongue marching down the Stairway to SUBSTANCE Cocaingels and
asses Give me opiate masses Fill up your church porn preachers And
we'll fill up our glasses.
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- Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag
Say what you like. It's A Dirty Word Reich, Say what you like.
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- The golden age of grotesque
- I won’t do it with you, I’ll do it to you
I hope this hook gets caught in your mouth I won’t do it with you, I’ll do it to you Don't say no, just say now
- I've got an F and a C, and I got a K, too, but the only thing I'm missing is a bitch like U.
- I'm not an artist, I'm a f*cking work of art.
- I never believed the devil was real
But god couldn't make someone filthy as you
Bang baby bang Suck baby suck It's Vodevil Kiss baby kiss Bang baby bang Suck baby suck It's Vodevil
Misc.
- Kill your god, kill your TV
- Astonishing Panorama of the End Times, Last Tour on Earth
Sourced
- Yeah I do want to have kids someday and I would show them
everything. I wouldn't hold anything back from them. I think if you
show kids reality and stop trying to protect them from it, then they
can handle it.
- Guitar World Magazine (24 September 1994)
- Q: What would you be doing if you weren't in music?
MM:I think I
might be a third grade teacher or a TV evangelist. Something where I
could be getting at peoples minds when they're most vulnerable.
- No matter how much they love you, they want a tragedy.
- On MM Fans, Spin Magazine (March 1997)
- A long time ago, there was a man as misunderstood as we are and they nailed him to a fucking cross!
- Winston Salem, N.C. (19 April 1997)
- If I believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God — and
I believe that there is one. I think God would appreciate what I say,
because I can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots.
- Penthouse Magazine (May 1997)
- I'm not against God. I'm against the Misuse of God.
- Raygun Magazine (Dec/January 1998)
- If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my
own dick on the wonder years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper. Besides
I wouldn't have sucked other people's dicks on stage, either. I would
have been sucking my own. Plus, who really has time to be killing
puppies when you can be sucking your own dick? I think I'm gonna call
the surgeon in the morning.
- The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (1998)
- (Reaction to Columbine) "Raise your children better, or I'll raise them for you."
- I wouldn't say a single word to them, I would listen to what they have to say and that's what no one did.
- When asked what he would say to "the kids at Columbine or the
people in that community" in Michael Moore's film 'Bowling for
Columbine' (2002).
- Q: Why do you do this?
MM:Because it's the only way I can deal with life.
- The times aren't more violent; they're just more televised.
- Chicago Sun-Times, Dec 2, 2000
- "I would like to read you a quote that came from an interview,
recently with someone named, Brian Warner, The quote goes like this:
'So initially I was drawn into the darker side of life. But it is
really just human nature. I started to learn that everything that's
considered a sin is what makes you a human being. All the seven deadly
sins are man's true nature, to be greedy, to be hateful, to have lust,
of course you have to control them, but if you are made to feel guilty
for being human than you are going to be trapped in a never ending sin
and repent cycle that you can't escape from and you are going to be
miserable. Ultimately you will be living in your own hell so there is
no need to worry about going to hell because hell will be on earth....'
you might know Brian Warner as Marilyn Manson."
- Brian McLaren "Sin 101: Why Sin Matters (Genesis 3:1-24" Preaching Today: Today's Best Sermons Issue 243
Attributed
- And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the
most, religion controlling what we see and what we do in our personal
lives, even if you're not a part of that religion. Antichrist Superstar
(the album) is a challenge really, to traditional morality and it's...
to make people question that and make people think about different
perspectives.
- Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be
something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became
something that people hated.
- Art opens minds, fascism closes them.
- As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting
more from you and it seems to me that what they want in the end is your
death.
- Everything you do is part of a plane plummeting towards our
pitiful, dying earth. But your art, what you create is stepping onto
the burning wing and forgetting silly things like life and death for a
moment. Just to enjoy for one second a glimpse of beauty before you are
reduced to ashes. (in response to the Columbine killings, posted on the
recetrieved section of Eric Harris's website, You Know What I Hate?)
- I can do with music what people do with religion.
- I had a nightmare the other night that people were trying to stab
me and shoot me and things like that. I dont know what gives me that
dream, but I pay close attention to it.
- I'm dying and I hope you're dying, too..
- I'm lucky — I can put all of my anger into a song. Other people
can't. When someone has something to say and no one's listening and it
just builds up, then these things happen. People react violently. They
cause a spectacle so you're forced to listen. ~ On the Columbine
killings
- I'm thankful that I have two middle fingers.....I only wish I had more.
- Im not saying that when I perform I'm Barry Manilow, but Im also not killing kids and beating up dogs and things like that.
- Is adult entertainment killing children or is killing children entertaining adults?
- It's like, I guess just being offended by how much everything suck, I can't help but to be in a bad mood all the time.
- It's more so now because the record deals so much with the idea of
revolution. Even though it discusses the failures of revolution and how
you can't change the world — you have to change within yourself
- Ive never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships the devil.
- Q: Obviously, people have misinterpreted what you're trying to do.
"As much as I've wanted them to," he says with a brittle laugh. "I
think that often chaos and misinterpretation in itself is a greater way
of making people think than taking things as literally as how you meant
them in the first place."
- Stop praying! Start thinking!
- The album is of the concept variety. Its central character is Adam
Kadmon, "a naive boy who wants to be part of a 'perfect' world that
doesn't want him". But as ever with Marilyn it's a fine line between
pisstake and seriousness. "Well there's definitely a strong sense of
sarcasm which usually leans more to me being sardonic," he says. "I
don't consider myself a comedian and I don't consider what I do to be
approached in a way like say, Eminem but at the same time I take what I
do very seriously but you can never take yourself too seriously or you
become a parody." ~ On the album Holy Wood (2000)
- The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.
- There's days when I'd love for everybody to realize that things
have gone too far, and that we need to be born again so that we can
appreciate the little things....then there's other days when I think
the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody?
Everybodys stepped on me my whole life. I've put on this crown....but
I'm not sure if I want it.
- Those who move beyond the albums title and the most blatant aspect of what I do, will then understand what I am trying to say.
- To kill the universe... it takes only one bullet...
- What impression do you want to make on Americas youth?
MM:"If I could just get them to WANT AN ANSWER, then they'll find it on
their own. I don't have any answer for them. There is a distinct lack
of leadership, idols, icons, and superstars for kids to identify with.
When I was a kid there was a lot of people that I could look to or look
up to and it just seems like there's not that anymore."
- Why should we believe in a god that doesn't believe in us?
- Your families and your teachers and your preacher, they didnt want
you to come here tonight...They'd rather you be in church..but you ARE
in church motherfuckers!
- I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing
control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I
do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in
something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a
completely acceptable sheep in society.
- I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
- Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going
to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way
that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going
to be pissed.
- "Hopefully I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity." (Spin, August 1996)
- "I heard this album as finished, I heard it in dreams...it was like
the revelations of John the Baptist or something." (on his album Antichrist Superstar, huH, October 1996)
- "I think everytime people listen to this new album maybe God will be destroyed in their heads." (on Antichrist Superstar, huH, October 1996)
- "I don't know if anyone has really understood what we're trying to
do. This isn't just about shock value...that's just to lure the people
in. Once we've got them we can give them our message." (Hit Parader,
October 1996)
- "My mom used to tell me when I was a kid, 'If you curse at
nighttime, the devil’s going to come to you when you’re sleeping.' I
used to get excited because I really wanted it to happen...I wanted it.
I wanted it more than anything." (Rolling Stone, January 1997)
Misattributions
- The death of one is a tragedy, But death of a million is just a statistic
- Being from Manson's Fight Song of Holywood. This is actually a quote from Joseph Stalin
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